To make sense of what we hear, the brain must integrate information over time. How is this temporal integration orchestrated in human auditory cortex? A new study by Norman-Haignere and colleagues1 introduces a promising method to estimate neural integration windows and demonstrates that category-specific versus more generic computations operate on distinct timescales.
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Schmitt, LM., Obleser, J. What auditory cortex is waiting for. Nat Hum Behav 6, 324–325 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01262-x
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